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  2. Phonograph - Wikipedia

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    He announced his invention of the first phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound, on November 21, 1877 (early reports appear in Scientific American and several newspapers in the beginning of November, and an even earlier announcement of Edison working on a "talking-machine" can be found in the Chicago Daily Tribune on May 9 [31 ...

  3. Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville - Wikipedia

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    Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville ([e.dwaʁ.le.ɔ̃ skɔt də maʁ.tɛ̃.vil]; 25 April 1817 – 26 April 1879) was a French printer, bookseller and inventor.. He invented the earliest known sound recording device, the phonautograph, which was patented in France on 25 March 1857.

  4. History of sound recording - Wikipedia

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    An Edison Home Phonograph for recording and playing brown wax cylinders, c. 1899. The phonograph, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877, [12] could both record sound and play it back. The earliest type of phonograph sold recorded on a thin sheet of tinfoil wrapped around a grooved metal cylinder.

  5. 50 Inventions From The Past That Were Amazingly Innovative - AOL

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    Thomas Edison invented the cylindrical phonograph in 1877 and was looking for ways to commercialize it. In 1888, Edison developed a china doll equipped with a cylindrical phonograph with pre ...

  6. Thomas Edison - Wikipedia

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    Edison with the second model of his phonograph in Mathew Brady's studio in Washington, D.C. in April 1878. Edison began his career as an inventor in Newark, New Jersey, with the automatic repeater and his other improved telegraphic devices, but the invention that first gained him wider notice was the phonograph in 1877. [40]

  7. Phonograph cylinder - Wikipedia

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    In December 1877, [5] Thomas Edison and his team invented the phonograph using a thin sheet of tin foil wrapped around a hand-cranked, grooved metal cylinder. [6] Tin foil was not a practical recording medium for either commercial or artistic purposes, and the crude hand-cranked phonograph was only marketed as a novelty, to little or no profit.

  8. Timeline of speech and voice recognition - Wikipedia

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    Invention: Thomas Edison invents the first dictation machine, a slightly improved version of his phonograph. [2] 1936: Invention: A team of engineers at Bell Labs, led by Homer Dudley, begins work on the Voder, the first electronic speech synthesizer. [3] 1939: March 21: Invention: Dudley is granted a patent for the Voder, US patent 2151091 A ...

  9. Edison Records - Wikipedia

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    Thomas A. Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording and playing back sound, in 1877.After patenting the invention and benefiting from the publicity and acclaim it received, Edison and his laboratory turned their attention to the commercial development of electric lighting, playing no further role in the development of the phonograph for nearly a decade.